Researching Women in the Archives and in the
Family, by M. Diane Rogers of the British Columbia
Genealogical Society. A fundraiser for the Friends of the City of Vancouver
Archives. 1150 Chestnut St in Vanier Park. Friends of the City of Vancouver
Archives:
http://vancouver.ca/ctyclerk/archives/friends/index.htm

Sunday, November 28, 2010 at Highcroft, 1489 McRae Avenue,
Vancouver.

Special
Collectibles Sale to benefit the Original Costume Museum Society (OCMS).
1:30 to 4 pm. Early entry at 12:30 for OCMS members. (Memberships can be
purchased at the door.) Adminst $5.00. Vintage clothing and accessories, prints,
books, toys, and more. (Not from the Museum's collections.) Original Costume
Museum Society website: www.ocms.ca

Herstory Café - Herstory
Cafe is a monthly get together in Vancouver - women’s history buffs can meet, hear a
presentation, socialize and have a beverage or snack, all in a casual
environment.

Upcoming Herstory Cafe Presentations

"The Impact of Laura Ingalls Wilder's
Little House Books or How a Series of Children's Books Helps
Explain Anti-Government Sentiment in the U.S." by
educator and author Anita Clair Fellman.

***Come early and have dinner with the
guest speaker and others: 5:30pm-7:00pm. Dinner
reservations required: 604 681-9321. Food and beverages for
purchase***

Wilder's books, bestselling
favourites for seventy-five years, offer an engaging picture,
presumably true, of one family's late 19th-century pioneering
experience on the Great Plains of the U.S. These beloved books
are present everywhere in American life, and are the source of
many people's understanding of the shaping influence of the
frontier on U.S. character and history.

Speaker:
Anita Clair Fellman was previously Chair of Women's
Studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She
also taught Women's Studies at SFU. Her most recent book is
Little House, Long Shadow: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Impact on
American Culture . Sylvia Hotel, 1154 Guildford St on English
Bay, in Vancouver. The talk is drop-in only; admission
free, but seating limited.

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 - 7:00pm-8:30pm, special
presentation for Canada's Women's History Month at the Vancouver
City Hall.

"Women
and Food: A Vancouver Historical Perspective" Presented
by the Herstory Cafe, The Women's Advisory Committee and
Councillor Ellen Woodsworth, in the Council
Chambers at Vancouver City Hall.

Free;
open to the public. The event will
feature a diverse and impressive panel of speakers presenting on
a variety of topics relating to our city's history, women and
food, including farming and gardens, food services, food
production, traditional & cultural food uses, food industry and
labour, business women, family stories and recipes and how women
today shape the food and sustainability movement. A list of the guest speakers and more
details will soon be at the HerstoryCafe.ca website:
www.herstorycafe.ca

In 2008
the Friends of St. Ann's Academy celebrated the 150th anniversary of
the arrival of the Sisters of St. Ann in Victoria, and the establishment of St.
Ann's Academy. See the Friends of St. Ann's Academy website for
current events:
www.friendsofstannsacademy.com/calendar.htm

Old Cemeteries Society of Victoria women's history tours, Victoria, B.C.

The Old Cemeteries Society of Victoria is in its 22nd year of offering cemetery
tours. If you have information about or photographs of women buried at Ross Bay
Cemetery or other Victoria Heritage cemeteries, please let them know.

Lieutenant-General Ernest Charles Ashton Garrison Museum, Saanich.Collection of Joan Kennedy memorabilia. Joan Kennedy was the main organizer
of the British Columbia Women's Service Corps in 1939, a model for the
Canadian Women's Army Corps. Open Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday, 9am to noon.
No charge. Call first: 250 363 8346. Group tours arranged.

Person’s Day commemorates the successful conclusion of the ‘Persons Case’ in
1929—which decided that Canadian women were declared persons under the law and
thus eligible for appointment to the Senate in Canada. Five Canadian women - the
‘Famous Five’- took this case to its conclusion: Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir
Edwards, Louise McKinney, Irene Parlby, and Nellie McClung.